Police gives Chilomoni residents no alternative
Malawi Police Service (MPS) says it will not come up with any alternative complaints lodging facility for residents of Blantyre’s Chilomoni Township and surrounding areas because they deliberately gutted their police station.
Speaking in an interview on Tuesday, Foster Mangani, senior deputy commissioner of Police responsible for Blantyre Urban, said the residents will have to swallow the bitter pill that at the moment there is nowhere they can report their security issues to.
He said MPS is mourning the torching of the station; hence, the residents should not expect it to come up with plan B for them to lodge their complaints.
Said Mangani: “They [Chilomoni residents] will be left to bear the consequences of their behaviour as police will not struggle to serve them.”
Asked on the suspects reported to have bolted in the wake of the torching on Monday, Mangani said the issue was an internal affair of the police.
Chilomoni Police Sub-station was torched by irate residents who protested the mysterious death of one of their colleague identified as Dyson Mjojo, 48. It is being alleged that prior to Mjojo’s death, he was involved in a fracas with some newly recruited police officers at a social joint in the township at dawn on Sunday.
In the meantime, civil society organisations (CSOs) in the country have faulted the conduct of the residents, saying it is illegal, unwarranted and uncalled for. The police station was serving the residential areas of Namiwawa, Chilomoni Fargo, Chilomoni proper and Michiru.
